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Take a ride on 'The World's Tallest Bridge' measuring 565 meters high, it connects Yannan and Gui Zhou, China. The bridge is a perfect blend of nature and technology at it peak, giving it an A class tourist view


As if he doesn't have enough jobs already, Marco Rubio apparently now has another name. @MsMelChen tells me how China literally gave him a new name to bypass their own sanctions on him: “Instead of rescinding the sanctions, what they did was just change Rubio’s name in Chinese, so that now the sanctions don’t apply... It's a 'different guy' coming in [to China]. It is a culture which cannot admit any political errors. It’s to save face. To actually reverse the sanctions would be to admit, ‘oh, we kind of did something that is a mistake.”



$HIMS (Hims & Hers Health) #earnings are out:





@Areskapitalon 的确是,从后期中美建交可以看出来毛是一个伟大的务实主义者。意识形态只是他达到目标的手段,而不是目标本身。很唏嘘的是,毛自己也知道自己在现代经济和科技这方面认知不足,当时在延安的时候还经常劝手下多学科学,说自己最大的遗憾就是理科不好。



最近越来越感觉交易里认知的重要性比起流程和定力的重要性差太远。一个人不需要有很高的认知就能看到行情存在,但是只有在一个人有稳定和可复用的流程时才可能把行情抓在手里。追求认知的优越很多时候是一种无用的英雄主义,南辕北辙了。 因为市场是流动的,它不给出答案。对一件事情,可以是对的,也可以不是对的。对于一个叙事,你可以说它是骗局,也可以说它是真理,这都不重要,掌握正确答案并不意味着自己优于任何人。因为它未来是骗局不影响它现在是真理。重要的不在于找到那个正确与错误,而是如何在其中做自己。






deepseek is raising a monster $7 billion round at $50B val making it china's largest ever AI raise but what shocks me the most is the founder, liang wenfeng: > he's personally contributing 40% of the round himself. $3 billion. > he owns 90 PERCENT of the company (unheard of at this valuation) > deepseek was founded inside his hedge fund, one of China's most successful funds. guys a fucking beast. this round is meant to achieve 2 things: 1. acquire as much compute to push out new deepseek models more often 2. turn deepseek revenue-positive by pushing new enterprise products (same tactic as OAI and anthropic) deepseek v4.1 is expected to release soon.


I am one of those who often push back against the China shock narrative. Let me offer a counterargument to the views expressed by Pettis and Setser — views that should not be dismissed, but which I think fail to recognise the positive aspects of China's manufacturing investments and exports. China certainly should look to consume more. Even the Chinese government has stated this as an explicit aim in its recent five-year plan. There is also evidence of overinvestment and excess capacity, for example in the property sector, something the Chinese government recognises as well. My main issue with the China shock narrative is the political framing — reflecting Western hegemonic anxiety — and a failure to recognise the benefits of China's exports, both domestically and internationally. China is not "unfairly flooding" the world with goods. It is climbing the value chain and following a model any developing country should pursue: export-led industrialisation. The "shock" is due to the scale and speed of this process. China is certainly disrupting the world economy, and I understand the concern in some quarters, among German car manufacturers, for example. But what has gotten lost in the current framing are the many benefits of China's trade surplus — benefits rich countries were happy to reap as long as China didn't compete with them directly. And companies around the world keep buying Chinese goods and inputs for a reason. What I am really calling for is more intellectual honesty from those who complain about China's trade surplus. Don't hide behind the language of "imbalances." If you think China is a competitive threat and that wealthy nations should actively use industrial policy to keep it at bay, say so — then we can have an honest conversation about what kind of world we want. My view is clear: China's export-led model is moving us toward a world of more shared prosperity, though not without complications.





You don’t take well to being challenged when you make evidence-free claims. You are the one claiming here the Chinese companies are collectively not profitable on domestic sales. What evidence do you have for this claim? Your deflecting non-responses indicate you do not have any real response to back up this claim.







